Sic Transit
Apr. 20th, 2024 08:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphilo Tome was a secondhand bookshop on Terminus Rd. We used to make special trips to Eastbourne from the farm just to browse its stock. It sold cheap- and suckered me into buying things I really wasn't needing or wanting- like an incomplete set of the works of George Meredith. It closed down and we were sorry and bought a couple of mugs to remember it by with Tome printed on their sides. Yesterday Ailz showed me how one of these had developed a crack that went right round the circumference and might eventually lead to the bottom falling out while it was full of hot tea- so I binned it. Now we have only one Tome mug left to cherish.
The premises that Tome occurred is now occupied by The Emporium- a shop which sells tat. We like it just as much as we liked Tome. A year ago I bought Ivy a skull there- not a real one- but a black one made of some sort of dense plastic with an inverted pentagram on its forehead- and the day before yesterday we were in there again and bought some sparkly brooches (£3.50 each or three for £10) plus a kaftan and a fidget toy....
The premises that Tome occurred is now occupied by The Emporium- a shop which sells tat. We like it just as much as we liked Tome. A year ago I bought Ivy a skull there- not a real one- but a black one made of some sort of dense plastic with an inverted pentagram on its forehead- and the day before yesterday we were in there again and bought some sparkly brooches (£3.50 each or three for £10) plus a kaftan and a fidget toy....
